>>let so, john edgar widen. i think he wrote a book -- he wrote a memoir called "my brother's keeper." yes. that was a very important book for me when i read it. there were two is the tight of the memoir she wrote. i loved it. brutal honesty. so that was important. i think when i was writing "men we reaped." [inaudible] i think the reason it was important to me specifically adds a memoir, because his structure is weird, you know, not the accepted structure. i think i needed to see that done in another memoir to realize they maybe could put off in the memoir. this is a memoir that was yiewflt for me when i was working on this one. i loved, i mean, it's not a memoir i love james baldwin non-fiction essays. i love them. , you know, i read his essay about his -- [inaudible] i can't remember the title right now. of course. i love that essay -- [inaudible] the way that he, you know, -- at the university of michigan and i read it over and over again. the way he sort of elegantly, you know, talks about the person and th